Improvement in fruit-jars



conjunction therewith, a pointer or index, so applied aient i @fittaEDWARD M. DAVIS, QF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOB- TO HENRY H. GOL-LINS, BENJAMIN E. COLLINS, AND HOMER WRIGHT, OF SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No. 83,367, dated October 27, 1868.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.l

To all whom tt may concern Be it. known that I, EDWARD M. DAvIs, ofPittsburg, in the county of Allegheny, and State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Preserve-J ars and Cans; and Ido hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,making a part of this specication, in which- AFigure l. is a top View ofa preserve-can, having my improvement applied to it.

Figure 2 is a diarnctrical section through the can.

Figure 3 is a perspective View of a can-top.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the severalfigures.

rIhis invention relates to an improvement in cans, jars, and othervessels which are designed for preserving fruits and other articles fromthe action of the atmosphere.

The' object of this invention is to afford means for readilyascertaining the kind of fruit or other substance contained in a can orjar, so that no mistake need be made in opening the same.

,It consists in stamping, printing, or otherwise permanently atiixingthe names of diiierent kinds of fruit-s, chemicals, or other substancesupon the cover or body of a preserve-can or vessel, and employing, in

that, in the act of closing the can or vessel by sealing its cover uponit, the labelling of the can is effected, as will be hereinafterexplained.

To enable others skilled in the art to understand my invention, I willdescribe oner practical mode of carrying it into eiieot. I

The drawings represent `my invention, applied to a metallic.preserve-can, but it will be seen, from the following description, thatthe invention is applicable to cans, jars, orother` preserve-vesselsmade of glass, eartheuware, or other substance, and made of diercntshapes. 1

Ais the ring, which is permanently secured on the top of thecylindricalbody C of the can, and which is made with fan annular iiangeor lip, by turning up its inner edge, as shown in iig. 2.

B is the cover, which has its outer edge turned so as to lit snugly uponthe annular lip ofthe top ring-A, and admit of being permanently securedin place by cement or solder put in the annular cavity b.

rlhis is an old 'and well-known mode of constructing metallicpreserve-cans. y

In stamping or otherwise producing the ring A, an impression orindentation is made upon it, as shown at a., which may be the ligure oi'an arrow pointing inward, as shown, or it may be a simple dot or othermark, which will serve as an index.

In producing the cover B, I stamp or otherwise imprint permanently uponit the names oi various kinds of fruits or other substances, and arrangethese names in lines radiating from the centre of the cover, as clearlyshown in igs. l and 3.

By having the names arranged in this manner, any one name, correspondingto the contents oi' the can, can `be brought opposite the4 index a, sothat, when the cover is sealed in place, the index will point at suchname, and thus indicate the contents of the can.

It is obvious that the same result can be obtained by printing orotherwise making the names upon the ring A, and having the index uponthe cover B.

Having described and shown one practical mode of labellingpreserve-vessels,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. 'lhe method, substantially as described, of labelling preserve-cansand other similar vessels, in the act of sealing the covers of suchvessels upon them.

2. The cover B, constructed with names radiating from its centre, andadapted for use upon a preservevessel, having an index of a suitabledescription upon it, substantially as and for the purposes described.

' EDVVD. M. DAVIS.

Witnesses:

Gao. H. LEE, A. S. NICHOLSON.

